[Dailydave] Some Propaganda.

[Joanna Rutkowska]

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Piotr Bania wrote:
> CODENAME 4514N - PRE-ANNOUNCE PROPAGANDA
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> Just some info for those who are interrested. I'm currently working on 
> my masterpiece project (school project), a first gui oriented and the 
> most advanced integrating-metamorphic engine so far. Integration engine 
> allows user to integrate any code to any PE binary file (x86 rocessors), 
> including device drivers etc. etc. 4514N engine can rebuild all the PE 
> structure, internal offsets (jumps,refferences), any type of PE sections 
> relocs,imports,exports,resources...), moreover it even can keep the 
> align of variables. Integration means that firstly target file is 
> disassembled to pieces (it creates a chain which connects the body of 
> target file), then we move that chain, we do everything we want (i call 
> this step InverseKinematics, just because i'm an 3d graphics hobbyst)
> and then we compile the chain again. Such horrible modified application 
> runs perfectly, moreover it is almost impossible to disinfect the 
> modified target.  So tell me, do you want to compile a rootkit inside of 
> yours ndis.sys? :)
> 

That would actually be trivially detectable if you decided to infect any
of the Windows system files (like e.g. quoted above NDIS.SYS), as all
those files (starting from Windows 2000) are digitally signed...

Still, the project looks cool - I could imagine using such an engine to
e.g. infect any of the non-signed PF files on disk, just to allow our
rootkit to be loaded into memory at system startup - but once loaded
rootkit should not change *any* code sections (Type I rootkits ale
really passe IMHO)...

Existence of such tools, as Piotr is working on, should really convince
and encourage *all* developers to digitally sign their executables.

cheers,
joanna.
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